Juniata Spring Summer 2012 Magazine

Published twice yearly by Juniata College, Office of Advancement and Marketing. Juniata College is an independent, co-educational college of liberal arts and sciences founded by members of the Church of the Brethren in 1876. Juniata’s mission is to provide an engaging personalized educational experience empowering our students to develop the skills, knowledge and values that lead to a fulfilling life of service and ethical leadership in the global community.

The international
prog rams at Juniata
College were honored
by receiving the Senator
Paul Simon Award
for Comprehensive
Internationalization
from NAFSA: National
Association of
International Educators .
Award-Winning: Honoring
Juniata’s Internationalization
Juniata is one of five institutions in the U.S. to receive the 2012 Senator Paul
Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization from NAFSA: National
Association of International Educators.
“Studying abroad is a tim
e when your most mean
ing ful ,
deep personal growth occ
urs because you are ou
t on your
own, and you are totall
y out of your comfor t zon
e."
—Eleanor Provias ’13 ,
ear th and environment
al studies
—Establishing international student exchanges
with partner universities around the world. Juniata
has established programs in India, China, Mexico,
the Gambia and Morocco. The College also formed
a consortium with five other Northeast colleges
and universities to help develop new study-abroad
opportunities in nontraditional sites.
—The Language in Motion program, a 2004 Simon
Spotlight Award winner, is a national consortium with 12
partner institutions. In addition, in 2011, Juniata reached
its goal of having 10 percent of Juniata’s 1,600 students be
international. The College’s class of 2011 had 48 percent
of its graduates participate in an international experience,
mostly through Juniata’s 33 programs in 16 countries.
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2012 Spring-Summer
“Our highly successful international initiatives are
the result of more than 30 years of faculty dedication
and strategic administrative support, as well as an
institutional commitment to providing our students with
transformative experiences, ”says Jenifer Cushman, dean
of international programs.
Some of the College’s internationalization efforts
include:
—Establishing in 2009 a Global Engagement Initiative
that led to the formation of an intercultural learning
assessment committee and the Global Village Living
and Learning Community, a designated floor in one of
the College’s residence halls where many international
students live.
—The dedication of Juniata’s faculty and staff to
provide students with transformative international
experiences such as teaching and advising international
students and traveling to international campuses to form
partnerships for study-abroad or summer programs. “The
greatest innovation in global engagement at Juniata is,
perhaps, this collaborative spirit cultivated through faculty
involvement,” Cushman says.
—Juniata’s formation of an international campus
community, an initiative including requirements that all
students must take at least two internationally focused
courses, establishment of the campus Unity House, and an
international “Host Family” program.
Photo courtesy Eleano
r Provias
Photo: Jason Jones